We have been working on a project for a customer to upgrade the kernel, PowerPath, OCFS2 and other operating system patches.  The project was interesting as no single source of information existed on the appropriate process.

The procedure issue comes in because OCFS2 relies on seeing the disks which PowerPath presents.  PowerPath and OCFS2 are reliant on a particular kernel version to work properly.  With all of the inter-dependencies,  which should be done and in what order was the question. To top it off, this was also running a RHEL cluster and another instance running Oracle RAC.

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Many of you may have already read the news, but for those of you that have not here is a recap. But first, let me state that we have tested all of our customer’s servers, and none have been compromised.

An email was sent to the fedora-announce mailing list, it started with, “Last week we discovered that some Fedora servers were illegally accessed. The intrusion into the servers was quickly discovered, and the servers were taken offline.”

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